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Never
Such
A
Picture!
with
SEVEN
GREAT
STARS
Greta Garbo
John Barrymore
Joan Crawford Wallace Bsery Lionel Barrymore.
Lewis Stone Jean Hersholt
Comes
to you!
the Greatest
Entertainment
Ever Presented
TO-DAY
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AT 2:30, 5,10 7.15
& 9.30 P.M.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1933.
HONCKONC'S FINEST CNEMA
EVERY STAR OF RADIO LAND IN A HEART-STIRRING ROMANCE!
Everyone famous... appearing
together in a drama of the
microphone... revealing their
trials... their struggles...thair
loves... their hates... the real
story of the men and woman
of the air.
THE
BIG
BROADCAST
STUART ERWIN BING CROSBY
LEILA HYAMS
BURNS & ALLEN MILLS
KATE SMITH BROTHERS
FINCE THIS ORCHESTR
ARTHUR TRACY THE STREST SINGER
CAB CALLOWAY AND HIS ORCHESTR
READ THIS GREAT
a
Glaramount Picture
LIST OF RADIO CELEBRITIES!
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TO-MORROW
A ROYAL ROMANCE OF THE SOCIAL HEGISTERITE AND THE BROADWAY CHECK GIRL TOLD WITH SPEED AND REALISM
YOU CAN'T WINI
Better leave
the joy
spoti alone
and jo home.
Fox
Hicture
HAT CHECK GIRL
Sally EILERS
Bon LYON
SIDNEY R. KENT
THE ONLY GENTILE WHO HAS A BIG PLACE IN
FILMLAND
Sidney R. Kont, President of eatet under the Sherinan law and Fox Film Corporation, was born buried under judgments aggregat- in Lincoln, Nebraska. As the age ing $25,000,000. Frank Hitchcock of fourteen, he got his first job, had the job of unravelling the stoking boilers in a green house tangle and he called Sidney Kent at 85 per week. From this humble in to help him. beginning has grown one of the most strikingly successful business! careers in the motion picture in-1 dustry.
Before he was twenty Kent was ocet pying a responsible position with the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in Wyoming. in 1912 he
Joins Famous Players.".
After this job was cleared up Kent approached. Adolph Zukor, then president of Famous Players. and offered to work for nothing until he could prove his value to
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TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. TIFFANY THAYER'S SEN. SATIONAL NOVEL NOW ON THE SCREEN!
THE BOOK THAT FAR CINATED A MILLION WOMEN!"
You may try to laugh it off but are you sure these things don't happen?... Come and see!
HOTE
Directed by EDMUND GOULDING frow Vicki
Banto's play.
TO-MORROW
BY SPECIAL, REQUEST
THE FUNNIEST PAIR IN PICTURES! -they're funnier
than ever!
· STAN
LAUREL
OLIVER..
HARDY
return to teach
you how to
Pack Up Your Troubles
Hal Roach production
Meto Goldwyn
Mayer
PICTURE
(STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW At 2.30, 5.20, 7,20 & 9.20 p.m. ROBERT A
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IN
· Everything's......... Rosie **
CURRENT PICTURES IN LOCAL THEATRES
GRAND HOTEL
AT THE QUEEN'S
HAT CHECK GIRL'
SALLY EILERS SUCCESS FOR KING'S THEATRE
Lewis Stone underwent one hun- dred and six distinct physical al- terations to make up for his role
in Although few motion picture cele of the shell-shooked doctor "Grand Hotel," Metro-Goldwyn brities were bron in Hollywood, Mayer's picturization of the tamous many of the present-day film favori Vicki Baum play which is engoying tes attended Hollywood schools be an extended run at the Queen's fare beginning their screen careers. With both the Fairfax and Holly *Theatre.
Stone had to change the entire wood high schools located in the left side of his face and body for picture capital, these two institu- the macabre makeup effect of a man, tions arr the alma maters of a sur torn by shell fire and wearing an prising number of stars. artificial arm and limb. The faci- al makeup was achieved through akiliful applications of collodian, cotton, spirit undertaker's wax, gum, adhesive tape, paint, putty and varnish, the operation requir.
ing almost two hours.
Claudia Dell ka “Fifty Million Frenchmen" coming to the Queen's,
SWEEPSTAKES
A STORY OF THE TURF Followers of the turf or anyone interested in the thrilling Sport, of Kings, will find. "Sweepstakes,"
Sally Eilers, for example, hails from the Fairfax school and dur ing her undergraduate days was member of a dramatic class that included Carole Lombard, Sally Phipps and Doris Hill, all of whom later reached fame on the screen. Miss Lombard was the first of these four to start up the film ladder; and by taking Miss Eilers to lunch with her one day on the old Sen- netto," was the cause of the later's entrance into the picture
arena.
Since her nation-wide success in Bad Girl," Sally EMers has been one of the most popular feminine players on the screen, and she fol lawed. her performance in that offering with equally ine portrayals in "Dance Team" and "Disorder ly Conduct."
THIRTEEN WOMEN"
SIDNEY R. 'KENT
AT. THE CENTRAL · went to the Pacific Coast with the that organization. His first work American Druggists' Syndicate. was in the distribution department Destruction and death, twins of Three months later he was the as special representative to film ex- Fate, have but one master-the will cor pany's assistant sales manager, chauges. Next he was appointed then assistant to the president and district manager to the territory. WAS which included the Kansas City, of a woma
This is the theme of the RKO for three and a half years. Radio production of "Thirteen virtually in charge of the business. St Louis, Omaha and Des Moines Wumen, which commences at The Shortly afterwards he returned offies, which position he held un- Central Theatre today, with Irene East where he became a salesman til May, 1918, when he was called| Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jills for the company. He was one of to the home office and made gen mond, Myron Loy and Mary Dun- an engineering party, and he and oral sales manager. In January, can, in the leading roles.
five other men were the sole in 1921, Mr. Zukor appointed him Miss Dunne, defies by sheer habitants of thirty-six square general manager of distribution strength of will an uncanny Fate miles of almost impassable coun- and a year later he was elected to was named general which has engulfed her friends. In try They built their own roads the company's board of directors. the role of Laura Young, fighting and pipe lines, established camps In 1928 he mother, she has seen her dearest and literally opened up the terri- marager of the company and in friends-girls of college days-ineet tary to civilization and business 1833 he was elected a vice president
of the corporation, a tragic end.
Strangely and suddenly this eerie, sinister thing the power of suggestion-which has crept into the lives of the doomed six, invades the homo of Laura and her child, Bobby. It seeks to strike at Laura through her small or. Her strug gle to resist it forms the theme of the play. What is this menace, intangible as light, that enters the lives of innocent persons How do it work?
Could such a diabolical scheme happen only in a motion picture 1 The answer is "no," according to Tiffany Thayer, noted novelist, and the author of the beat-selling Thirteen Women," from book, which the picture was directed by George Archainbaud.
It was upon a real-life situa-
activity.
Why not Pictures?
Then "Fox."
A friend talked to him enthusias.
On April 4, 1932 Mr. Kent was tically of the motion picture in- duttry. He liked its prospects and elected executive vice president of cast his lot with the films under the Fox Film Corporation, in the banner of the old Vitagraph charge of operations, and two Company. Not long after the weeks later became president of Ceueral Film. Company was indi- the company,
News of Film Folk
Our
Air mail
Letter from London
January 20th
Her latest Fox Films vehicle, directed by Sidney Lanfield, who also mad. "Dance Team," is "Hat Obeck Girl," which comes. to the King's Theatre on Thursday next. With Ben Lyon in the masculine lend and a cast that iaclades Ging- ar Rogers, Arthur Pierson, Monroe Owsley and Noel Madison, "Hat to any one, especially those whose sixty miles south of Carmel, Cali- The ineffable "Tarzan" is to have Check Girl' is heraided as one of wil-power may not be particular-fornia, with quail, deer, and deep- a sequel-Tarzan and his Mate." the most entertaining pictures of ly great.
sea Bahing, but no-tourists. For Johnny Weismuller and Maureen “It is difficult to fight such a the property acquired by Colman O'Sullivan will again play the ape- sinister enemy because he invari is so remote from civilisation that man and his bride. ably strikes through the mind."
Ronald Colman, who has just as an actor. in New York than in tion that I based my story," said completed "Cynara" under King, London, has arrived in Hollywood Thayer The things that happen in Vidor's direction has bought a to work for Paramount. "Thirteen Women" might happon large tract of wild coast country,
the season.
ant players in the cast are James Gleason, Lew Cody, Frederic Bur-
ton and Paul Hurst.
Low Lipton wrote "Sweepstake," which is reported to be a turf story Ralph with a brand new twist, Murphy is credited with the dialo gue of this Charles R. Rogsts pro- duction
one of Greta Garbo," said the su an Rko-Pathe production starring perintendent, as be handed the Eddie Quillan, which will open at portrait up to the Bailie for in the Central Theatre on Sunday, a spection. "I am not sure, perhaps
you know?" most entertaining picture.
GRETA GARBO THE UNKNOWN
STOLEN PHOTOGRAPH PUZZLES GLASGOW BAILIE
CINEMA "FAN" FINED
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Greta Garbo is stated to have something like 2,000,000 male ad mirers all over the world, but there is one Glasgow Bailie at least to The last Agua Caliente Handi- Magistrate-No, I don't know. whom she appears to be unknown
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a' road will have to be built at a Cost of £8,000.
It is expected that by the end of this year from 80 per cent. to 90 per cont of America's cinemas will be under independent control. Two years ago the proportion was only: 15 per cent striking testimony to the anxiety of the big American circuits to unload their responsibi- *lities.
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It is reported that Marie Dress- lor's next picture will be her last.
.
M.G.M. have completed "Raspu tin," with Ethel, John, and Lionel Barrymore, at a cost of 850,000 dol- lars..
Francis Lederer, the hit of "Au- tumn Crocus" and "The Cat and the Fiddle, is to be starred in a J. D. Williams, the founder of musicalromance by Radio,!! First National Piotures, and, as production chief of British Nation-
For one scene of the Somerect al Pictures, one of the founders of Maugham play, "Our Betters," in Elstree, has re-entered the film which Constance Bennett in star- business in America. He has re ring, Radio Pictures are construct-
Church, Westminster There are at least Choice Pictures, Inc. Cand
THAYER'S sensational novet
13. WOMEN
Startling on the screeni WIRENI DUNHE RICARDO CORTEZ- JILL ESMOND, MYRNA LOY Orected by Corge Archanbaed. Devil Febrich, Eme Prachtur
HERE IS ENTERTAINMENT SPICED WITH THRILLOS MYSTERY & IN RIGUE AN RKO-RADIO PICTURE
NEXT CHANGE
The Sport of Kings
The New favorite! EDDIE QUILLAN
WEEPSTAKE
RIDING STRAIGHT INTO YOUR HEART IN THE GREATEST RACING THRILLER EVER FIL
WITH MARION NIXO JAS, GLEASON, LEW
SOCIETY GODS
THE FILMS
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English some excellent work
with stealing the framed photo- Carl Laemmle, who has bought artista flesh, provides one of the many years of age, told the Magistrate Court, Glasgow recently charged millingly that it was a very
wood Cooper, who has just finished her and charming
popular in soci scanes in this comedy-drama.
of the Regent Picture House, Ron-pres, says that no Night scenes of Tia. Juana, the foolish act, and that he did not graph of the Garbo from the walls the American right of Zoma Ear High Binelal And Violet Kemble in Chelsea.
all-star combination cou
She had a thri field Street
After an absence of five years, Mexican border resort, and add realise what he was doing MI
while, making Mr. Wallace Reid, widow of the recently when moto tional racing events at the Tan- could not have taken it home on The Superintenden
Charles R Ro foran race track near San Francisco any account," he said "I did not Bailie Souding that the
was observed lon
The Devil is Driving, was im- dead star is to return to the days to Strath were also filmed by Director Albert realise that until afterwards.
we taken herse
pressed by the competence of one screen. She first attracted atten-
was blo Magistrate You Rogall at their authentic locales."
Eddie Quillan will be seen as something which did not belong to under
Mary after the death of her husband Cromarty. Tirt to be in possession of a he found that she was a jockey in "Sweepstake," while you You have evidently got to be ad by one of the attendants, and of the extras. Asking her name, tion as Dorothy Davenport and which
Hous wa
showing the Swedish Maclaren, one of the stars of only made several pictures intended to her car, but fine photo his talented leading lady, Marion taught
tou years 250
warn the public against the traffic the alter film star in 'siflaring mood.
in narcotics, which caused her hus proceeded on: onment,
I am told this photograph" is
and rain, Sir Guy Standing, better known band's death: (Conting
Nixon, is said to offer a pleasing
interpretation of a cabaret singer who wins his heart. Other imports Continued on nezí: Columns)
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rom